Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

- C. SISSON.

GARMENT S PPORTER.

INVENTOR t Patented Mar. 15, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

" a CATHARINE SISSON, OF GARNETT, KANSAS.

GARM ENT-SU PRO RTE R.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,366, dated March 15, 1887.

Application filed December 16,1886. Serial No. 221,725. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CATHARINE SIssoN, of Garnett, in the county of Anderson and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a novel form of garment-supporter designed for ladies wear, the object of the invention being to provide a support for the skirts and hose, wherein the parts shall be so arranged that the skirt-support and the hose-support shall each be adj ustable, such adjustment of each part being, however, independent of the other.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved form of garment-supporter, and Fig. 2 is a View of the skirt-supporter as it appears when removed from the hosesupporter.

In the drawings, 10 and 10 are two strips of inelastic webbing, and to the ends of these strips I secure elastic straps 12, that are engaged by the buckles 13 of straps '14, to the outer ends of which there are secured the hosesupporting clips 15.

Above the strips 10 and 10 there are placed other strips, 11 and 11, which said strips 11 and 11 are united by an elastic band, 17, the strips 11 and 11 resting beneath retainingloops 18, that are secured to the strips 10 and 10, and these retaining-loops 18 are preferably made of elastic material.

To one end of each of the strips'll and 11 there is secured a sliding buckle, 20, and in each of the loops 19 formed below the buckle 20 there is arranged a spring-hook, 21, while to the opposite ends of the strips 11 and 11 there are secured other spring-hooks, 22.

The garment-supporter above described is used as follows: The strips 10 and 1 0 are passed over the shoulders so that the band 17 of the strips 11 and 11 will be across the back of the wearer. The hose-clips are then brought into engagement with,the hose, and the length of the hose-supports adjusted by means of the straps 12, and the buckles engaging with said straps. Thespring-hooks 21 and 22 are brought into engagement with the bands of the skirts of the wearer, and these hooks are adjusted to proper position by means of the sliding buckles 20.

From the construction described it will be seen that the 'hosesupporting attachment and theskirt-supporting attachment may each be adjusted to suit therequirements of the wearer, and that this adjustment of each part of the garment-supporter may be effected without interfering with the adjustment of the other portionof the attachment, and also that the skirt and hose support move one upon the other to accommodate themselves to the position or movements of the wearer.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a garment-supporter, shoulder-strips having hose-supporting clips connected with their ends, and the shorter shoulder strips adapted to move freely upon the longer strips and provided on their ends with devices for engaging the waistband of a garment, and loops or guides holding said longer and shorter strips together, substantially as set forth.

2. In a garment-supporter, shoulder-strips 1O 10, having loops or guides 18, elastic strips 12 on the ends of the strips 10 10, and the hose-clips adj ustably connected with the elastic strips, and shorter shoulder strips 11 11 upon the longer strips and passing freely through theloops or guides thereof, the shorter strips being provided with hooks or catches for engaging the waistbands of garments, substantially as set forth.

3. In agarment-supporter, the combination, with strips 10 and 10, of elastic lengths secured thereto at either end, lrosesupporting clips adj ustably connected to the said elastic lengths, strips 11 and 11, held by loops that are secured to the strips 10 and 10 and connected by an elastic band, 17, springhooks 22, secured to the rear lower ends of the strips 11 and 11, spring-hooks 21, held at the forward ends of the strips ll and 11, and sliding buckles 20, all parts being arranged substantially as described.

OATHARINE SISSON. \Vitnesses:

R. OoLE,

E. F. POLPLIN. 

